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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1533] (1688/1782)
The record is made up of 2 volumes (1624 pages). It was created in 1915. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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The Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Co. gave notice that
ihev would claim compensation for the outrage; and Colonel Miles, the
British Resident at Baghdad, continued to press, both locally and through
Her Britannic Majesty's Embassy at Constantinople, for effectual punitive
measures ; but the Wali of Baghdad seemed timid and disinclined to
authorise coercive proceedings ; and he even proposed to withdraw the
Turkish militarv guards which had been furnished to the British steamers.
Eventually one Haji Mutair, said to have been concerned in the attack-
on the " Khalifah," was captured, and in February 18S1 he was
condemned to death by the Turkish Courts; but the sentence long
remained unexecuted, pending an appeal by him to Constantinople, the
final result of which is not known. The case continued to be pressed by
Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople and by the British
Resident at Baghdad, but without further success. The local Turkish
authorities seemed more anxious to conciliate Shaikh Saihad than to punish
him; they represented him as having emigrated to Persia, though m
reality he was still hiding in the Tigris marshes j and it was reported that
they had offered him the lease of certain state lands on condition of his
appearing in person, but he did not take advantage of the proposal, which
perhaps covered a design to seize him by treachery. The Porte insisted
that subsequent reports by the British Resident at Baghdad, who des-
cribed the situation as insecure and asked that British war vessels might
be sent to Basrah, were incorrect; and they asserted on the authority o
the Wali of Baghdad that " the safety of the river left nothing to e
desired." A few years latter, as we have seen. Shaikh Saihud gave more
trouble to the Turkish authorities.
Meanwhile a controversy had arisen in regard to tho right of British Q^iW
river steamers to tow harges on the Tigris. About the begmmng ot 18h0 British
the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Co., after giving six mon s s earners j>
notice of their intention to do so, began to employ barges ; but in March 188 o.81.
of that year, after one barge had been in use for three months and another
had made several trips, the Wali of Baghdad objected to the practice an
intimated that barges might not be towed until special permission
had been received from Constantinople.
The Wall's argument, which the Turkish Government at once
adopted, was that that Messrs, Lynch-s concession (or rathei wa
Porte regarded as such) admitted of the British Company s running two
Reamers only, and that, as barges were not mentioned m e arman
considered (by the Porte) to be Messrs. Lynch's, none could be emploje
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Theses two volumes make up Volume I, Part IA and Part IB (Historical) (pages i-778 and 779-1624) of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915), compiled by John Gordon Lorimer and completed for press by Captain L Birdwood.
Part 1A contains an 'Introduction' (pages i-iii) written by Birdwood in Simla, dated 10 October 1914. There is also a 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Tables' (page v-viii) and 'Detailed Table of Contents' (pages ix-cxxx), both of which cover all volumes and parts of the Gazetteer .
Parts IA and IB consist of nine chapters:
- 'Chapter I. General History of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (Part IA, pages 1-396);
- 'Chapter II. History of the ’Omān Sultanate' (Part IA, pages 397-629);
- 'Chapter III. History of Trucial ’Omān' (Part IA, page 630-Part IB, page 786);
- 'Chapter IV. History of Qatar' (Part IB, pages 787-835);
- 'Chapter V. History of Bahrain' (Part IB, pages 836-946);
- 'Chapter VI. History of Hasa' (Part IB, pages 947-999);
- 'Chapter VII. History of Kuwait' (Part 1B, pages 1000-1050);
- 'Chapter VIII. History of Najd or Central Arabia' (Part 1B, pages 1051-1178);
- 'Chapter IX. History of Turkish ’Iraq' (Part 1B, pages 1179-1624).
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- 2 volumes (1624 pages)
- Arrangement
Volume I, Part I has been divided into two bound volumes (1A and 1B) for ease of binding. Part 1A contains an 'Introduction', 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Trees' and 'Detailed Table of Contents'. The content is arranged into nine chapters, with accompanying annexures, that relate to specific geographic regions in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The chapters are sub-divided into numbered periods according, for example, to the reign of a ruler or regime of a Viceroy, or are arbitrarily based on outstanding land-marks in the history of the region. Each period has been sub-divided into subject headings, each of which has been lettered. The annexures focus on a specific place or historical event. Further subject headings also appear in the right and left margins of the page. Footnotes appear occasionally at the bottom of the page to provide further details and references.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The sequence runs through parts IA and IB as follows:
- Volume I, Part IA: The sequence begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 456. Total number of folios: 456. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 460.
- Volume I, Part IB: The sequence begins on the first folio with text, on number 457, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 878. It should be noted that folio 488 is followed by folio 488A. Total number of folios: 423. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 427.
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- Title
- 'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:130, 1:778, iv-r:iv-v, back-i, front-a, back-a, spine-a, edge-a, head-a, tail-a, front-a-i, v-r:v-v, 779:1098, 1131:1146, 1099:1130, 1147:1484, 1489:1496, 1485:1488, 1497:1624, vi-r:vi-v, back-a-i
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